Camp

First I need to publish a few corrections. Tim Case is the state director for Ted Nugent United Sportsmen of America and Chris Raines works for Cabela's. Stacey is the Handicapped Coordinator for Florida. I do apologize for any slights which may have occurred. You have been beyond helpful in getting this up and running. When we meet, my wife has the first round...

Camp here is nice. We have air in the tents and it provides great sleeping during the day, since I have the night shift. I just adjust the vent and it is on me and I am out. With the shamals, though, its like the tent is taking a beating constantly. Man, it gets pounded and sometimes wakes you up, but just like anything you get used to it. Since we hydrate or die all the time here, inevitably you have to use the potty. Here is where the first challenge is. Leaving from a nearly pitch black tent inside to the blinding light is a very painful experience. Even wearing wrap around sunglasses causes severe pain for the first few minutes, much like being pepper sprayed. Or another analogy is from, if I can remember, Kill Bill II, where Darryl Hannah has here remaining eye ripped out by Uma Thurman and is thrashing around in the trailer. Yep, thats me trying to cover the 50 meters from my tent to the hopper from the pain of not being able to see. The good thing is they are cleaned daily. The bad thing is you have to make sure which one you go into. We have "east" and "west" porta hoppers here. The west is your traditional, injection molded hopper complete with throne, wipe, air freshener, etc. The east designed hopper, on the other hand, is much like being in a track meet. The platform is tilted towards the door and there are 2 foot rests. Thats it. You kinda have to pretend, if you are doing a class one download, that the flack is thick over Schweinfurt and you have to Nordan bombsight your load into a hole about 10" around. Not to mention tucking the judge out of the way and balancing against the wall with your other hand. God forbid your aim is off and you are in flip flops. Not a real easy explanation to your roommates.

Compared to where I was just at, everything is real close. Chow is a 5 minute walk, my office 10 for now. When the host unit leaves, we will assume their tents. Thank god for night shift because no one is around other than my shiftmate so we get some pretty good sleep. The good bathrooms are like a 1 minute walk. They are pretty nice. Hot and hot running water. The cold water isnt so we just turn that on and shower in that, which is more than enough for us. They get cleaned every day by the locals, but you always have in the back of your mind, is this my last flush???

We have pool tournanments, ping pong tournaments, playstation, movies, computer access, phone access, etc, so we are real taken care of here. the PX has alot for us, almost as much as much as stateside. But we can always use stuff from home: cookies, pretzels, peanuts etc. But wait until it cools down here for that, at least for the cookies. I can guarantee that they will melt. Everything else will make it.



Take care. Fight the good fight and keep tuning in. makes the temporary stay here worth while.

Sl'ainte